dictionary definitions for "damaged"


From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:

  damaged
      adj 1: harmed or injured or spoiled; "I won't buy damaged
             goods"; "the storm left a wake of badly damaged
             buildings" [ant: undamaged]
      2: being unjustly brought into disrepute; "a discredited
         politician"; "her damaged reputation" [syn: discredited,
         damaged]

From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  Damage \Dam"age\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Damaged
     (d[a^]m"[asl]jd); p. pr. & vb. n. Damaging
     (d[a^]m"[asl]*j[i^]ng).] [Cf. OF. damagier, domagier. See
     Damage, n.]
     To occasion damage to the soundness, goodness, or value of;
     to hurt; to injure; to impair.
     [1913 Webster]
  
           He . . . came up to the English admiral and gave him a
           broadside, with which he killed many of his men and
           damaged the ship.                        --Clarendon.
     [1913 Webster]

From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  damaged \damaged\ (d[a^]m"[asl]jd), adj.
     1. changed so as to reduce value, function, or other
        desirable trait; -- usually not used of persons. Opposite
        of undamaged. [Narrower terms: {battered, beat-up,
        beaten-up, bedraggled, broken-down, dilapidated,
        ramshackle, tumble-down, unsound}; {bent, crumpled,
        dented}; blasted, rent, ripped, torn; broken-backed;
        {burned-out(prenominal), burned out(predicate),
        burnt-out(prenominal), burnt out(predicate)}; {burst,
        ruptured}; corroded; cracked, crackled, crazed;
        defaced, marred; hurt, weakened;
        {knocked-out(prenominal), knocked out}; {mangled,
        mutilated}; peeling; scraped, scratched;
        storm-beaten] Also See blemished, broken, damaged,
        destroyed, impaired, injured, unsound.
        [WordNet 1.5]
  
     2. Rendered imperfect by impairing the integrity of some
        part, or by breaking. Opposite of unbroken. [Narrower
        terms: busted; chipped; cracked; {crumbled,
        fragmented}; crushed, ground; dissolved; fractured;
        shattered, smashed, splintered; split; {unkept,
        violated}] Also See: damaged, imperfect, injured,
        unsound.
  
     Syn: broken.
          [WordNet 1.5]
  
     3. being unjustly brought into disrepute; as, her damaged
        reputation.
  
     Syn: discredited.
          [WordNet 1.5]
  
     4. made to appear imperfect; -- especially of reputation; as,
        the senator's seriously damaged reputation.
  
     Syn: besmirched, flyblown, spotted, stained, sullied,
          tainted, tarnished.
          [WordNet 1.5]


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